Cute Children Don’t Make Me Broody
This weekend Anne and I ventured over to the wilds of Bristol to visit my sister (Emma), brother-in-law (Var) and nephew (Isaac). We had a cracking time, even if Var's alterior motive was that he needed help moving the shed. I spent most of the time on the floor with Isaac (his command to get me on the floor and playing is "Owen down") playing with his train, car or gricks (bricks). I did teach him to say "Owen rocks!" which I thought was quite an achievement. To celebrate we had a drink together.
Now, you might think from all this talk about my nephew that I am getting a little broody but, and my mother will be bitterly disappointed to hear this, I have no desire to have my own kids. Don't get me wrong, I love my nephew and he is incredibly cute but when I think about having my own kids the idea just fails to excite me. Am I alone in this or do others think that having children is probably not such a great idea?
The thought of you having kids scares me as well Owen.
I do want kids one day, just not yet. I might adopt though, save inflicting the world with a mini me.
January 31st, 2006 at 10:27 amshudder…
children..
shudder.
My main aim is to be the best uncle in the world. I mean, mum and dad tell you off, but uncle can be really fun.. We love uncle (insert name here)
Séan
January 31st, 2006 at 11:05 amI don’t think I’m scared of having kids, it’s just that I haven’t really got much of a desire to become a dad. As Séan said, being an uncle is cool but fatherhood does sound like really hard work!
January 31st, 2006 at 11:27 amI understand where you’re coming from Owen. For the longest time I didn’t want kids. Call me selfish, but I enjoyed my lifestyle and i really wanted drew all to myself. I didn’t want to share. Then after 6.5 years of being married, I thought… okay. I would like a kid. But, there was no way in hell i was having kids until I was ready. I made sure we were through all of our growing pains, we were financially secure, we were ready to share our lives with someone else, etc.
I think people who choose NOT to have kids are being responsible. You really need to think about everything that goes into in raising a child and figure out if thats something you want to do. So many people have kids just because its expected or its the thing to do. That’s plain stupid in my opinion. If you don’t want kids and you know that, I say good job not having them :D.
January 31st, 2006 at 3:49 pmKids are cool, other people’s kids are better as you can play with them and then return them when they crap/cry/graze a knee/fight/bawl etc.
Having said that, a little Pete would be the best thing in the world apart from his old man of course
February 3rd, 2006 at 10:51 am